Vamp-marker



(NoModeL) MGOARTER.

VAMP MARKER.

No. 310,065. Patented Dec. 80, 1,884.

irn TATES JOHN G. MOOARTER, OF BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS.

VAMP-MARKER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 310,065, dated December 30, 1884.

Application filed May 9.511934. (Noniedi-Ll 1'0 all whom it may concern:

3e it known that I, J OHN G. MeCAn'rnn, of Boston, in the county of Suffolk and State of Massachusetts, have invented certain Improvements in Vamp-Markers, of which the following is a specification.

This invention has for its object to provide means for simultaneously marking the rear edges of a series of ramps arranged one upon another in a pile, so as to indicate the center of the rear or upper edge of each vamp.

The invention consists in the provision of a slide or holder adapted to move in a guide in a supporting-base on which the pile of vamps rests, and provided with a series of markers adapted to be inserted between the vamps of the pile and mark each vamp, the base being preferably provided with gages,which hold the vamps in such position that the markers will act on the central portion of the rear edges of the vamps, as I will now proceed to describe.

Of the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, Figure 1 represents a top view of a portion of the supportingbase having my improved marking device. Fig. 2 represents a section on line a', Fig. 1. Fig. 3 represents a side view of the marking device detached. Fig. at represents an end view of the marking device.

The same letters of reference indicate the same parts in all the figures.

In the drawings, (t represents the support ing bed or base adapted to support a pile of vamps, o. The position of the pile of vamps on the bed a with relation to the markers hereinafter described is determined by two gages, w 10, secured to the bed a. Each gage wis a plate or block having an arm, 2, adapted to bear against the rear edges of the vamps, and an arm, 3, adapted to bear against one of the sides of the central recess in the rear portion of each vamp in the pile, as shown in Fig. 1. Thus four bearings are afi'orded for the vamps, two of which (the arms 2 2) govern the direction of the longitudinal center of the vamp, while the other two (the arms 8 3) fix the vamp laterally so that its longitudinal center coincides with the markers hereinafter described. The gages w w are secured to slides a c, adapted to move in oblique slots or guides b b in the bed a, said slots being an ranged, as shown in Fig. .1, so that when the slides are moved toward the vampsnpporting portion of the bed they will be also moved closer together, and when the slides are moved away from said vamp-supporting portion they will at the same time be moved farther apart. The arms 3 S are thus adjusted laterally at the same time that the arms 2 2 are adjusted longitudinally. Thebed is provided between the gages win with a guide-groove, d, in which is adapted to move a yoke or frame, 0. Said frame is preferably U-shaped, as shown in Figs. 2 and 3, and is provided with rods ff, connecting its two arms. On said rods are mounted thin plates or tongues g, of metal, separated by washers 7i, and adapted to move vertically on the rods Springs t' i press downwardly on the series of plates and permit them to yield so as to receive Vamps between their outer ends, as hereinafter described. The plates r are provided near their outer ends with scorers or markers 9, adapted to make sufficiently distinct marks on vamps interposed between the platen. Said markers are preferably formed by striking up portions of the plates to form markingedges. The plates are made of different lengths, the outer end of each being backof the one below it, as shown. A pile of vamps being placed on the bed a,with its position determined by the gages w w, as described, the longitudinal center of the pile will be in the line in which the yoke or holder 0 is capable of moving in the guide-groove (l. A movement of the yoke 0 toward the pile of Vamps will cause the plates to interpose themselves between the Vamps of the pile, as shown in Fig. 2, the longer plate first inserting itself under the bottom vamp, the second plate next inserting itself between the bottom vamp and the one above it, and so on, the plates being inserted successively until the marker of each plate bears against a vamp, as shownlin Fig. 2. The under side of each vamp is thus marked at its rear edge at a point equidistant from its rear corners, all the vamps being marked simultaneously or by a single movement of the yoke.

The described arrangement of the plates,

whereby they are inserted successively, enables. each plate to raise the Vamps above it so that the next plate can properly enter. The plates are enabled by their freedom of vertical movement to act on Vamps of different thickness, each vamp separating the plates between which it is interposed.

The gages arranged and operated as above described are described and claimed in my pending application for Letters Patent for vampmarker, filed March 27; 1884, to which reference is made. In said application certain perforating markers or needles are shown, to indicate the position of the outside tip, which is pasted upon the toe portion of each vamp before the vamp is incorporated into the boot or shoe. I have not shown said perforatirig-markers in the present case; but it will be understood that they may be employed in the same machine with my improved markers aboxe described.

It will be seen that a pile of Vamps can by the described improvement be quickly mark ed to indicate the centers of their rear edges.

Perforating-ands such as are employed to mark the toe portion of the vamp, as described in my above-named application, cannot be used for marking the rear edges, because perforations at said edges would injure and disfigure the Vamps, so that it is nccessaryto mark the centers of the rear edges on the sides of the vamp.

Heretofore each vamp has been marked essarily slow. A great saving of time is therefore effected by my improvement.

I claim- 7 1. In a vamp-marking machine, the combination of. a bed or support for a pile of Vamps, and a sliding yoke or holder having a series of thin plates or strips provided with markers adapted to enter the crevices between the Vamps of the pile and simultaneously mark all of said Vamps, as set forth.

2. In a vamp-marking machine, the combination of a bed or base, gages w 10, secured to the bed and adapted to determine the position of a pile of Vamps, and a yoke or holder adapted to slide in a guide between said gages, and provided with a series of plates or strips having markers, as set forth.

3. The improved vamp-marking device com posed of a sliding yoke or holder, and aseries of plates having markers supported by said holder and made of different lengths, each plate being adapted to yield or move vertically, as set forth.

4. The combination of the yoke or frame r2, having the cross-rods ff, the plates 9, having markers free to move vertically on said rods and separated by washers, and springs 'i 1', pressing on said plates, as set forth.

In testimony whereof I have, signed my name to this specifieation,in the presence oftwo su'lr scribing witnesses,this 15th day of May, 1884-.

JOHN G. MCGARTER,

Vitnesses:

O. F. BROWN, A. L. W'HITE. 

